Fifty-Fourth Report - Improving single living accommodation for service personnel
Select Committee
Public Accounts Committee
HC 940
23 April 2021
Government response
Treasury minutes: Government response to the Committee of Public Accounts on the Fifty-fourth report from Session 2019-21 · published 2 Sep 2021
Recommendations & Conclusions
2 results
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Conclusion
Rejected
We enquired as to what the Department is doing in response to the decline in...
Conclusion
We enquired as to what the Department is doing in response to the decline in levels of satisfaction reported in the 2020 Armed Forces Continuous Attitude Survey (AFCAS). This showed that 49% of service personnel living in Single Living Accommodation …
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Government Response Summary
The government rejects the implicit recommendation to set a target for satisfaction levels in Single Living Accommodation. It states that while understanding personnel views is important, more work is needed to understand needs before a satisfaction target can be set, and the Defence Accommodation Strategy will not include such a target.
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Conclusion
Rejected
The funds for improving Single Living Accommodation are not ring-fenced.
Conclusion
The funds for improving Single Living Accommodation are not ring-fenced. While the Department stressed that Single Living Accommodation was a very high priority in Defence, it also stated there are other priorities.66 It faces wider affordability challenges, and the equipment …
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Government Response Summary
The government agrees that funding Single Living Accommodation (SLA) improvements is important but explicitly states it will not ring-fence funds centrally, as investment remains a delegated matter for single Services.
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